Posted by fetzi
Travelling around I remember from time to time asking myself 'what would be the translation for mobile phone in this language?
I try to remember:
german - handy ('cause it 'goes on hand')
suisse - natel (nations former largest phone company?)
polish - komorkowy (?)
english - mobile (self-explainig)
spanish - cellular?
any others?
(and yes, I do not want to search any dictionaries for this)
Posted by tedsc456
Swedish = Mobiltelefon OR JUST Mobil
Posted by DSF
romanian - 'telefon mobil', 'mobil' or 'celular'
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Posted by Krubach
Portuguese: 'Telefone Móvel' or 'Telemóvel'
Posted by tranquil
Norwegian: Portabel talatut...
Sorry: Laffen is right just below here
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Posted by laffen
Norwegain: Mobiltelefon or mobil
Posted by Krubach
@tranquil & @laffen
Make up your minds!
Posted by Ganxta B
Hungarian = "mobiltelefon"
Posted by fetzi
@tranquil & @laffen
you won´t tell me that the air is getting thinner beyond 500 posts, eh?
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Posted by Jools
Bulgarian = "GSM"
Posted by vee
Croatian: "mobitel" or simply "mob"
Posted by tranquil
Guys; I was trying to be funny but Laffen's seriousity knackered my joke
Sorry!
Posted by fetzi
tranquil and laffen joking in the hood..
Posted by Krubach
So what does it mean 'Portable talatut'?
Posted by kristaga
Impossible to translate directly, but "talatut" means something like "a tube to talk into" and it is very funny in Norwegian.
Mobile phone in Icelandic:
farsími
"far" is derived from "að fara", which means "to travel" (same origin as the word "to fare" in English or "zu fahren" in German) and "sími" means "phone". "Sími" was actually a word in Oldnorse which meant "a (long) connecting line" that had disappeared from modern Icelandic. But when the phone came to Iceland they decided that this old word could be used for this new invention.
Posted by Bianca
Dutch: Mobiele telefoon
Posted by kristaga
Faroese (I forgot that): fartelefon
The same explanation as in Icelandic.
Posted by Krubach
fart_elefon?????
I wonder what's the ringtone...
Posted by tranquil
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Something like this maybe?
Posted by fetzi
depends on the meal of the caller; beans & onions would raise the volume, I presume..
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yihaah - finally more than 49 posts..
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Posted by iyiinsan
cep telefonu
Unlike in other languages, cep means "pocket", not "mobile"...
Posted by crowing
we dont have a translation for our language, but its a collective name for telephones... inlcuding cellphones.
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telepono (the philippines does have 300 years of spanish heritage/bondage.. thus the language..)
Posted by Krubach
@tranquil
Posted by bigred485
in Hebrew cellphone is "Pelephone" (Peh Leh Phone)
Posted by Leks
In Sweden mobile phone also have a "nickname"
It´s "nalle" which also means teddybear
Posted by k4m!k4ze
@tranquil - ROTFLMAO
good ringtone mate
In my language, its a complex word but everybody just use the word 'cell phone' anyway
Posted by peejay
Spanish: Móvil
Catalan: Mòbil
Posted by blayv
Mobilni (serbian). There are also sleng words- /mosha/ and /mob/
Posted by Gabe*
I call it "Celular" or "Cel" in spanish, and where I live, that's how the people call it too.
Posted by uncle
Slovenian:
mobilni telefon
mobi
mobič
Posted by thanasis
Greek:
kinito
Posted by russtproof
Chinese (Mandarin): 手提電話
This can be broken down into:
手提 (shou3 ti2) - portable
電話 (dian4 hua4) - telephone
which can then be further broken down to:
手 - hand
提 - carry
電 - electricity/electrical
話 - speech
People also refer to mobiles as just 手提.
Posted by seorang
In Chinese, 手æ电è¯, in short 手æ or 手机
Posted by kristaga
russtproof and seorang: you need to include the graphic letters as images, it is impossible to get anything out of you postings... this is how it looks for me:
Posted by mckvakk
In norway we also have another word for it.. "telefon". Its the same as for regular land lines
Posted by Vlammetje
Kristaga, enabling chinese characters would do the trick
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or the more popular 'Mobieltje'
Posted by kristaga
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Thanks, but I already tried that, and it did not work. The reason might be that my laptop runs Linux. Could you (or someone else) post a screen image of how the text look like? Similar to what I did?
Posted by bohdan
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Telefon komórkowy, komórka.
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In norway we also have another word for it.. "telefon". Its the same as for regular land lines |
The same situation in Poland
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Posted by Brasco
In malay : Telefon Bimbit
such a mouthful.
Posted by BobaFett
In hungary the official phrase is mobil telefon = mobile fone, but usually we use just mobile for it.
Posted by mipgo
polish = komórka ... means "cell"
Posted by Aivar
In Estonian language: mobiiltelefon, mobiil, taskutelefon. And lot's of slang words.
Posted by Brasco
English = Handphone / Mobile phone
Posted by vanquish
in english:
mobile phone
or cellphone!
and in geordie:
moobyle phoown
Posted by gojnik064
Serbian:Mobilni telefon, mob, fon :-D
Posted by *Jojo*
Filipino (Philippines) :
1. Telepono
2. Selyular
3. Nokia
Posted by zaslek
in japanese its keitei or something i believe, it means to carry
Posted by blackspot
@JN, In our vicinity, we always refer to "telepono" as the regular landline. For cellphones we normally use "cellphone" or simply "cell"
Posted by *Jojo*
@blackspot -
"Telepono" is a SLANG word bein' used in the ATC's Telecom Center pal . . . Say, "O Jojo, ano na ang TELEPONO mo ngayon?" I will reply: "Wala lang, Nokia 9500 lang naman ang TELEPONO ko ngayon" . . .
Posted by Mr.BJ
In ARABIC = AL JAWAL
it has the same meaning of mobile
and it Pronounced ( al jaa waal)